On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:15 AM, James Knott
Lubos Lunak wrote:
As demonstrated also in this thread, there is a widely accepted myth that defragmenting is completely useless with Linux, and as such nobody has been really bothered enough to write any reasonably usable generic tool.
Given that modern file systems are fragmentation resistant, please explain how fragmentation is a problem on Linux.
I don't have any stats to back it up, but xfs has had a defragger years and ext4 has a semi-released defragger. (The ext4 version is in the kernel and official userspace tarball, but is not fully tested / reviewed per Ted Tso the ext4 maintainer.) I don't know if and when fragmentation becomes bad enough to use these tools, but they would not exist if the answer was never. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org